a 20% boost is huge, for 3 years since chatgpt. even if it stopped there, that's 20% fewer people that need to be in your role, which is at least tens of thousands of jobs
That’s far less than the productivity boost I got by building some internal tooling with phoenix liveview instead of react.
10-20% productivity posts have been happening regularly over the course of my career. They are normally either squandered by inefficient processes or we start building more complex systems.
When Rails was released, for certain types of projects, you could move 3 or 4x faster almost overnight.
If devs produce 20% more, won't companies hire more since the gain/loss equation is starting to tilt their way even more? I find it odd that people think productivity increases lead to layoffs.
10-20% productivity posts have been happening regularly over the course of my career. They are normally either squandered by inefficient processes or we start building more complex systems.
When Rails was released, for certain types of projects, you could move 3 or 4x faster almost overnight.